“The idea that “all men are created equal” is a gift to the world from the American Indian.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“Insanity on the other hand is an intellectual pattern. It may have biological causes but it has no physical or biological reality. No scientific instrument can be produced in court to show who is insane and who is sane. There's nothing about insanity that conforms to any scientific law of the universe. The scientific laws of the universe are invented by sanity. There's no way by which sanity, using the instruments of its own creation, can measure that which is outside of itself and its creations. Insanity isn't an 'object' of observation. It's an alteration of observation itself. There's no such thing as a 'disease' of patterns of intellect. There's only heresy. And that's what insanity really is.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“It’s all taking the customer’s money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
“These were the underdogs, the outsiders, the pariahs, the sinners of his system. But the reason he was so concerned about them was that he felt the quality and strength of his entire system of organization depended on how he treated them. If he treated the pariahs well he would have a good system. If he treated them badly he would have a weak one.”
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
― Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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